The Japanese authorities call for retirees to volunteer to go inside the Nuclear plants to put out the fires sort of reminds me of the infamous Tuskegee-Guatemala experiments although the similarities could be ideologically challenged. The rationale of the Japanese is that the retirees will die anyway long before they gat full blown cancer from the massive exposure to radiation. Are there ethical concerns here? As the cross-cultural dude on Tips,it would seem that the kamakaze paradigm of the Japanese is almost equivalent to Maslow's need for self-transcendence. Btw,a few years ago some of my students thought that it was ok to give experimental drugs to Aids' clients with the caveat that if the drugs were ineffective nothing would be lost since the Aids' clients "would supposedly die anyway."
I guess,if in the U.S, we subject our retirees to such a mission,the U.S would be accused of elderly abuse. I may be tempted to volunteer but someone stole my two six-packs of potassium iodide. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida kamakaze paradigm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9461 or send a blank email to leave-9461-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
